book reviews
Chime-in Comes Before Buy-in
I just finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni presents the following model as the The Five Dysfunctions of a Team:
I just finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni presents the following model as the The Five Dysfunctions of a Team:
Simplify Your Product Design
My earlier post titled, Good Complexity, Bad Complexity, I discuss a few case studies where produce and process complexity can be good, and where it can be bad. One of the areas in which a balance needs to be had between a rich feature set and low maintentance and manfucting overhead is in how we design our products.
My earlier post titled, Good Complexity, Bad Complexity, I discuss a few case studies where produce and process complexity can be good, and where it can be bad. One of the areas in which a balance needs to be had between a rich feature set and low maintentance and manfucting overhead is in how we design our products.
Book Review: 11/25/2006
I just finished two books on Venture Capital and Private Equity. The first one is Buyout: The Insider’s Guide to Buying Your Own Company and the second one is Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook.
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This was an interesting book, written by a long-time practitioner in the private equity industry. It was an easy read and provided some good, in-the-trenches stories and tips.
I just finished two books on Venture Capital and Private Equity. The first one is Buyout: The Insider’s Guide to Buying Your Own Company and the second one is Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook.
So,
This was an interesting book, written by a long-time practitioner in the private equity industry. It was an easy read and provided some good, in-the-trenches stories and tips.
12 Questions with Mary Poppendieck
Last week, I invited the readers of shmula to pose questions to Mary Poppendieck, the author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004 and, the sequel Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback) which will be available in early September 2006. For this interview, 12 Questions were submitted and Mary was gracious enough to answer them — the reader’s Questions and Mary’s responses are below.
Last week, I invited the readers of shmula to pose questions to Mary Poppendieck, the author of Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers (Paperback), which won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004 and, the sequel Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash (Paperback) which will be available in early September 2006. For this interview, 12 Questions were submitted and Mary was gracious enough to answer them — the reader’s Questions and Mary’s responses are below.
